Mountain Bike Rider

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARY FISHER

Will technology save the world or destroy it?

It’s got to be both. Take clean eating… What food have we invented as Americans? The factory farm, and shelf life. We raise it up on chemical fertilisers and steroids. Then you ship it away 500 miles and kill it thoroughly.

But shelf life is a huge boon to humanity, something that can sit on the shelf and not go bad. In the 60s and 70s they were predicting all these famines worldwide and by factory farming we missed that bullet. It’s good things and bad things.

How have you been over the past 18 months?

I’ve been hanging out with the kids a lot in

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